Betsy McCaughey
As COVID-19 mutates, it’s becoming more contagious than the virus that invaded the U.S. about a year ago. A trip to the grocery with a mask on, which used to be low risk, is becoming riskier.
As cases and deaths increase rapidly, people are scared and upset. They’re spending hours on websites and hotlines struggling unsuccessfully to get vaccine appointments.
President-elect Joe Biden’s vaccine distribution plan, which he announced Friday, doesn’t offer them much hope. Biden said he’ll open 100 federal vaccine sites in school gyms, community centers and stadiums the first month. That’s for the entire nation.
Stacie Petter
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, highlighting a complex problem that challenges communities close to home and around the world. Stacie Petter, the Ben H. Williams Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, uniquely applies her discipline to combat trafficking and slavery. In this Baylor Connections, Petter shares information systems’ role in that fight and explains how a grant from the National Science Foundation will help equip law enforcement with resources to identify and prosecute trafficking in their area.
Transcript
Derek Smith:
Hello, and welcome to Baylor Connections, a conversation series with the people shaping our future. Each week, we go in depth with Baylor leaders, professors and more, discussing important topics in higher education, research and student life. I m Derek Smith and our guest today is Dr. Stacie Petter. Dr. Petter serves as the Ben H. Williams Professor of Information Systems and Busines
We want to buy a home on 10 wide-open acres and live on $50,000 a year where should we retire? MarketWatch 2/9/2021
I’m looking for advice on where to live in retirement.
I’m a disabled veteran, my spouse is retired/disability military, and we have a combined monthly income of $4,200 a month. It may eventually rise to $5,400. We have no debt and about $75,000 in savings.
We’re in our 40s and looking to live in a state that does not tax military retirement and offers a lot of veteran benefits. We want to buy a house with at least 10 acres in a rural location no more than one hour from a large town/small city that has great health care, shopping, restaurants, and a college/university. We don’t own a house now that we could sell. We also love to travel, so a major airport within a three-hour drive would be a bonus. We’d also love to be near some kind of water, a large lake or river.
SIU students return to campus for the Spring semester
SIU students return to campus for the Spring semester By Colin Baillie | January 20, 2021 at 5:18 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 5:23 PM
CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) -Southern Illinois University welcomed students back onto campus Tuesday.
Students returned after a long break, Fall classes on campus finished before Thanksgiving break.
What’s happening this semester?
Many of the same COVID-19 rules will be intact.
Rae Goldsmith, Chief Communications Officer at SIU said the same protocols will be in place
“We’ll still have all of the same safety, cleaning, mask protocols, that we had. We’ll still have a mix of classes, both face to face and online and a little bit of a combination of both,” said Goldsmith.
Betsy McCaughey
Creators Syndicate
As COVID-19 mutates, it s becoming more contagious than the virus that invaded the U.S. about a year ago. A trip to the grocery with a mask on, which used to be low risk, is becoming riskier.
As cases and deaths increase rapidly, people are scared and upset. They re spending hours on websites and hotlines struggling unsuccessfully to get vaccine appointments.
President-elect Joe Biden s vaccine distribution plan, which he announced last Friday, doesn t offer them much hope. Biden said he ll open 100 federal vaccine sites in school gyms, community centers and stadiums the first month. That s for the entire nation.